The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04
Local md state Notes.


Seemingly good authority says President Nc
Kesn sold his stock and that OF his friends at
24C
A. G. Stanley has been appointed agent of the
Lake Erie & Western at Noblesville' vice A. M.
Baker.
VIM. Thorne, of the c., l., st. L. e. G. Offices
at this point was yesterday appointed agent of
the road at Lawrenceburg.
Norman Beckley, general manager of the Gin
cinna,i. Wabash & Michigan, was in the city
yesterday official business.
The PENNSYLVANIA line carried out of Chicago,
In May, about 20 per cent. Of the east-bound
business, the p, Fit w. 81 O. carrying II per
cent
correct in it's intimation that the Atchison, To-
peka g. Santa Fee is behind the purchasers Of
~ Vandalia-
ID. +. Whitcomb, general superintendent OF
the Union tracks and Belt road has gone to Yer
mont, TO visit his aged mother. He is to be alb
sent ten days.
In the month of May &c, s9S pieces of baggage
were handled at the Union Depot; of this num-
Der $500 were checked out, against S,419 the
corresponding month. 1856.
The Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan road has
adopted for a monogram a heart, in the center OF
which Is An elk's head, representing Elkhart,
prominent station on the road.
The New Albany steel-rail mill has this week
received 200 tons of steel blooms from Antwerp,
Belgium, being the first installment of 5000 tons
purchased abroad for this mill
The Gulf Colorado d Santa Re company mas
contracted with Sinker. Davis g. Co, of this
city, furnish four engines and boilers for that
number of water stations on the road.
1t is believed that NJ. E. ingalls, will shorten
his stay in Europe many important events
are transpiring in the railroad deals which
directly or indirectly affect the Big Four.
Fort Wayne is becoming one of the best paying
stations on the Pennsylvania system aside from
terminal points The freight receipts OF this
station reach q monthly average of about
800, 600.
The Lake Shore people are making extensive
improvements to their Indiana division this year.
A good deaf is being done in re-graveling the
road bed and overhauling the station ouses and
the bridges on the line
NJ j. Becker chief engineer of the Pennsyl-
vania lines west of Pittsburg. has gone to Wash
ineton to confer with Secretary Endicott in re-
gard to the construction of railroad bridge
across the Ohio River at Nimick Station.
1t is believed in railroad circles that the l. e
ST. l.. division Of the Bee-line will be benefited
dalia. President McKeen drew business to his
road that the new owners will hardly hold.
Col Joseph Hill. general superintendent of
the Vandalia. was recently offered better posi-
and il is believed that now the Vandalia passes
out of the control of Mr. McKeen he will accept
the offer.
The citizens Of New Albany seem quite conf
road will be built. which will give that city
counting in the Ohio & Mississippi extension,
now building. six roads, several of them impor-
tant ones.
August Walter. off of the Hannibal & ST. Joe,
has been appointed master painter of the L.
N A. 81 c. road Both the passenger and freight
equipments of this road are going through the
shops and being reprinted as rapidly as their IA
cilties will permit
The Illinois Central mas taken full control of
the old Champaign e. Havana road, and it is
hereafter TO be known as the @. g. II. division of
the Illinois Central, under the supervision OF w.
Wilkinson, superintendent Of the Springfield d.
vision Of the Illinois Central
The Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan people
claim to be entitled TO the name of the natural
gas route as the natural-gas erch Is traversed
BY their road-Andsrson, Marion. Alexandria,
Paramount. Jonesboro and Lafontaine all having
a number of large-volume wells
The United States Supreme Court denies the
petition for n rehearing in the case OF H. II.
Porter and others The Pittsburg Bessemer
steel works This ends the legal fight OF the old
Chicago e. Great Southern Railroad Company,
and the claimants will lose the money.
The travelling passenger agents Of the roads
whose headquarters are Indianapolis yesterday
received passes for themselves and families from
Harry Fuller general passenger agent Of the
Chesapeake e. Ohio, from Covington to Phebus.
Va, which 10 the nearest point on the road 20
DID POINT Comfort, where the annual meeting